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Centrepoint optimistic after completing AAP acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
After a tough year for independent dealer group Professional Investment Services (PIS), parent company Centrepoint is confident that the full acquisition of Associated Advisory Practices (AAP) will improve the group's performance. AAP and Associated ...

AustralianSuper awards Sevior $1.2bn mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Fund manager John Sevior's Airlie Funds Management has attracted close to $1.2 billion from AustralianSuper. The former Perpetual star fund manager founded Airlie last year and AustralianSuper awarded Sevior's start-up with its fifth largest mandate ...

Australia's second SBB hits $10m target

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Australia's second social benefit bond (SBB), issued by the Benevolent Society in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac, has closed after raising its target $10 million. The Benevolent Society SBB, which will help fund the ...

Gone fishin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013

Court freezes LM Investment Management founder's assets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
LM Investment Management founder Peter Drake has had his assets frozen and been forced to surrender his passport by the Supreme Court of Queensland following an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). LM Investment ...

The budget and the ceiling - never again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013

Over 1 million customers breakup with banks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
Over one million Australians have stopped dealing with their financial institution in the last year, despite customer retention efforts. The majority, about 855,000 people, ended a relationship with a bank, a Roy Morgan Research Consumer Single Source ...

FIIG's latest bond issue already oversubscribed

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013
Corporate bond broker FIIG Securities' $60 million Cash Converters bond issue has closed after receiving full subscription within two weeks of its release, demonstrating a healthy appetite for unrated corporate debt. FIIG said the five-year unsecured ...

Retirees see silver lining of slowing mining boom

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
The end of the mining boom could see resources companies paying out higher dividends to shareholders as opportunities for reinvestment dwindle, according to Plato Investment Management managing director Don Hamson. These higher dividends will particularly ...

NAB Asset Servicing wins Prime Super contract

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
National Australia Bank's (NAB) Asset Servicing business has hung onto its contract to provide custodial services to Prime Super. The $ 1.6 billion industry fund for regional and rural Australia has been a client of NAB Asset Servicing since 2007 and ...